ROUTING STORM WATER THROUGH A DRAINAGE SYSTEM

THE UNSTEADY FLOW EQUATIONS, DESCRIBING THE PROBLEM OF ROUTING STORM WATER THROUGH STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEMS WITH LATERAL INFLOW, ARE SOLVED BY THE METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS ON DIGITAL COMPUTERS. THE STORM DRAIN CONSISTS OF A SINGLE CONTINUOUS LINE OF CIRCULAR CHANNEL WITH CONSTANT SLOPE. THE MAIN INFLOW TO THE DRAIN IS AT THE UPSTREAM END. THE LATERAL INFLOW COMES THROUGH A CIRCULAR CONDUIT AT THE JUNCTION BOX AND IS NORMAL TO THE DIRECTION OF THE MAIN DRAIN. THE OUTFLOW IS A FREE FALL AT THE DOWNSTREAM. A GOOD AGREEMENT IS FOUND IN COMPARING COMPUTED HYDROGRAPHS AND OBSERVED HYDROGRAPHS IN THE EXPERIMENT AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS ALONG THE DRAIN. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 98, No HY1, PROC PAPER 8642, PP 123-135
• Authors:
  • Pinkayan, S
• Publication Date: 1972-1

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Journal of the Hydraulics Division
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drainage; Equations; Field studies; Information processing; Routing; Theory; Unsteady flow
• Uncontrolled Terms: Field data
• Old TRIS Terms: Method of characteristics
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00204406
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 27 1972 12:00AM